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Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Nevada State Bar publishes a series of public information booklets to help individuals who are seeking legal representation or are interested in do-it-yourself forms, such as Power of Attorney Forms. The State Bar publishes these forms in both English and Spanish to further help ease the process of determining one’s legal options.

NV-Attorney.com has taken the liberty to extract the forms that pertain to personal injury, and have made them accessible below for your convenience. All forms are in PDF format and available in both English and Spanish. For more information concerning your rights or legal claims in Nevada, please contact the Las Vegas Law Offices of Benson & Bingham or the Nevada Attorneys for more information.

Public Brochures (PDF Format):
Lawyer Referral and Information Service
Servicio de Referencia de Abogados y Información

A California Girl was found unconscious and later pronounced dead after a roller coaster ride on the downtown Las Vegas Strip. Catlynne Shaw, was found unconscious July 16th after riding the Canyon Blaster, a ride at Circus Circus Adventuredom. After an off duty Clark County fireman helped revive Shaw, she was rushed to University Medical where she later expired.

The initial prognosis was that her heart seized during the ride, however the coroner’s office said it may take weeks to determine the actual cause of death. Canyon Blaster was originally opened in 1993 at Circus Circus, a division of MGM Mirage Inc. Hotel accidents and injuries are unforeseen events, which sometimes lead to tragedy, such as the case of Catlynne Shaw of Union City, California.

If you or a loved one has been injured during a hotel stay, and believe you were a victim of Hotel negligence or premises liability, contact the Las Vegas, NV Law Offices of Benson and Bingham, experience hotel accident litigators.

The growing list of injured construction workers at the CityCenter Development in the downtown Las Vegas Strip grew by two July 15. Two workers were flung from a construction lift at the MGM Mirage site; fortunately, both remained conscious after the fall.

Hotel development deaths and injuries have grown at an alarming rate prompting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to repeatedly look into safety requirements over the past several months. Six workers to date have died from the CityCenter development, including Rusty Billingsley, a member of the Local 433 Ironworker’s Union.

The CityCenter, is an approximately nine billion dollar development on the Las Vegas Strip, and is expectd to be completed by 2009. Hotel accidents and injuries are often associated with such developments. If you have been injured in a hotel accident, the cause of the accident may be due to negligence or unreasonable safety conditions; contact the Las Vegas Las Offices of Benson & Bingham if you have been injured in a hotel accident and believe the injury could have been prevented.

An intoxicated man with four prior DUI convictions hit two women waiting for the bus on Boulder Highway. Steven Murray, a 44 year old man behind the wheel, was thought to have been impaired by prescription drugs at the time of the crash on Monday, July 7th.

Porshe Hughes, one women injured in the accident, remains hospitalized in Las Vegas, while the other woman, Patricia Hoff, was killed due to multiple blunt force injuries from the accident.

Murray was driving with only an instructional permit at the time of the crash and is facing charges of driving while under the influence of drugs, including Percoset and Valium. Police officers are still awaiting blood tests to determine the state of the driver during the accident.

Southern Nevada has one of the highest per capita auto accident/injury rates in the nation; if you have a victim of a Moving Vehicle Accident, or MVA, in Nevada, contact the Law Offices of Benson & Bingham, skilled auto injury attorneys at law.

Jeffrey Allen Ogburn, a 22 year old man from La Quinta California, was killed in a head-on auto accident July 2nd in Reno, Nevada. Ogburn was driving a company owned van on Highway 395 when his tire blew, leading the van to cross the median into ongoing traffic. He was working for the family business, Budget Blinds, at the time of the accident on July 2nd, near the Golden Valley Exit off 395 South.

Ogburn attended Middle School in Carson City and later graduated from Douglas High in 2004. A memorial account in Ogburn’s name has been set up with Wells Fargo Bank.

The northern Nevada area is prone to its share of accidents due to weather and its 24 hour lifestyle. To learn more about your rights as a motorist in the State, contact the Nevada Attorneys, experts in wrongful death and car accident claims.

Two couples from Contra Cost County in California died June 28th when their single-engine plane crashed near Mount Charleston. One of the victims, Erik Nunn, was piloting the aircraft with his wife and another couple, when the airplane descended too low and clipped some power lines near Echo Road.

The crash set off a twelve acre blaze that left residents scrambling due to evacuation plans in the area. As of Sunday night the blaze was nearly contained, although over 200 firemen were called to the scene.

The cause of the plane accident approximately 40 miles outside Las Vegas had not been determined, although an investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration was called to evaluate the evidence at the crash site. This may prove difficult since much of the surrounding land was laid waste to the ensuing blaze. Luckily, none of the nearby homes were damaged during the planes descent, and the fire was more easily contained since the area had been recently damaged by an avalanche preventing the fire from spreading more dramatically.

Plane and air accidents are usually unforeseen tragedies; however, sometimes negligence or faulty equipment may lead to a crash. If you or a loved one has been injured or hurt in an air accident in the Southern Nevada area (Grand Canyon, McCarran International, Henderson), and believe the accident could have been avoided or was due to negligence or defected plane equipment, contact the Law Offices of Benson & Bingham, Air Accident Attorneys at Law.